2009/11/18 O. Hartmann <ohartman_at_zedat.fu-berlin.de>: > Gary Jennejohn wrote: >> >> On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:44:12 +0200 >> Dan Naumov <dan.naumov_at_gmail.com> wrote: >> >>>> WHy not just build from source? >>> >>> Because expecting users to build from source to install or update >>> their systems in the year 2009 is an outdated concept, this is why we >>> have freebsd-update in the first place. >>> >> >> This is such a load of BS I could fertilize 100 acres with it. >> >> In this day of inexpensive computers with fast mulit-core CPUs and >> gigabytes of memory this argument is completely lame. >> >> Fifteen years ago I would have agreed, because it took days to build >> world and the kernel. Been there, done that. >> >> --- >> Gary Jennejohn > > Been there, did it, too. > > Fools, conceptually compromised by Microsofts closed-binary-strategy, often > complain about 'why compiling, it is an outdated concept ...'. It is, simply > in my opinion, a helpless selfdefense: they do not understand much about > operating systems (me, too) and never try to understand the concept behind > (me not). But today, having sophisticated binary update facilities, it seems > to speed up a worse development: many companies save the computer-scientist > to maintain their stuff - because they have a bunch of cheap fools > 'fertilizing the acres of foolsness' and pretending being the master of the > puppets by hitting an 'update-key' and everythings works magically ... This is unreasonable elitism. Having to jump through hoops, manually adjust Makefiles and spend time compiling just to apply a system update does NOT make you a "guru". It makes you waste time that could be better spent elsewhere. - Sincerely, Dan NaumovReceived on Wed Nov 18 2009 - 13:25:10 UTC
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